mystery play
a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Origin of mystery play
1- Compare miracle play, morality play.
Words Nearby mystery play
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How to use mystery play in a sentence
It was treated solemnly, dreamily, phlegmatically, as a sort of cross between Maeterlinck and a 'mystery play.'
Oscar Wilde | Leonard Cresswell InglebyDavie responded that it was like a pasteboard town in a mystery play, and that he longed to strike at it with his good broadsword.
Two Penniless Princesses | Charlotte M. YongeThe Spaniards also developed a new form of the mystery play,—the autos sacramentales.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerA most ingenious mystery play worked out, however, in terms of modern theatrical realism.
Class of '29 | Orrie Lashin and Milo HastingsThis crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play.
Notre-Dame de Paris | Victor Hugo
British Dictionary definitions for mystery play
(in the Middle Ages) a type of drama based on the life of Christ: Compare miracle play
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